The university, which is in the process of shipping more than 100 research chimps to a sanctuary in northern Louisiana, announced the penalties Friday.

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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette has paid a $38,571 penalty to the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the deaths of three primates and the injury to another in unrelated incidents at UL's New Iberia Research Center.

The announcement came as a complaint was filed with the Louisiana attorney general's office alleging animal cruelty by a St. Landry Parish transport company in the death of another research chimp that was headed from a research facility in Maryland to the New Iberia center.

The university, which is in the process of shipping more than 100 research chimps to a sanctuary in ...